I think the idea was if some of the cool kids on the block such as Apple agree to talk to Real, then the bullies will stop throwing garbage at Real during recess.
I worked on pretty much the same kind of game for any X11 system http://xtux.sourceforge.net/ I was putting in Bill Gates, Linus and Jobs. The main problem was, at 64x64 pixels they pretty much look identical. Same build, near same bad haircut. Creepy.
Here's a simular game my friend and I made sometime ago for X11
http://xtux.sourceforge.net/
It has network code (should probably only be used for LAN), and a large selection of characters.
The cruel thing is we made the game to get on slashdot more than anything else (the game even includes a slashdot level) and now this comes along.
My friend is going to be pissed:)
I'll donate my dual sidewinder to anybody.
Please.
Someone take it away.
EA's just trying to protect their monopoly.
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EA's never been good to the fan community.
They release quite frankly the worst Ultima ever and feel their intellectual property is being compromised by people wanting to enjoy what Ultima was.
EA has taken over sooo many game companies it's stupid, something to watch out for.
But maybe I'm just bitter cause Ultima9 was such a crap game.
>Furthermore, the friggin' WTC is *not* a >military target.
>. I think it's time to take off the kid gloves >and do to the Mideast what we did to Germany and >Japan.
Hiroshima, Nagasaki were not a military targets. The actual largest amount of people killed during WW2 in one attack was in a civilian German city. England was crying for revenge after constant bombings of London, so they pretty much flattened an easy target. Bosnia was fought by attacking civilian targets.
This is the sickest peace time attrocity but the point is killing Middle East civilians isn't going to help either. Infact that'll most likely make their want for revenge terrorist attacks larger.
Also I think a Palestine splinter group has taken credit for this, but usually a few groups like to take credit for terrorist actions.
Despite every other reply you seem to have got I'd like to commend you on your comment.
You make a post saying we've got to wait till we can find out who was responsible, and that making racial attacks against Arabs in America is going to solve nothing.
And you get attacked.
I'm not sure how a kamakazi pilot gets labeled as cowards either. The people who did this did it out of a blind sense of complete and utter patriotism. They were willing to die and kill thousands for what they believed in and the result, massive massive tradgedy.
Now if everybody else responds with a blind sense of complete and utter patriotism things aren't going to get any brighter.
The people who did this, should be punished and crippled to a point where this can hopefully never happen again.
But the key is "the people WHO did this", not "the people who we think did it, or the people that came from the same country as the people who did this".
I was very impressed with the original Planet of the Apes as a major part of it was about evolution vs religion. For the day (and even today) that would of raised quite a storm.
I haven't seen the movie yet but, out of interest, can someone tell me if they've kept that as a major aspect or is it all now about Freedom ala BattleField Earth?
Need I remind you that the ship that brought us into first contact with the Vulcans was made by one hick (not counting interferance by future generations).
Oh wait, I'm confusing imagination with reality again.
Just like everybody who thinks this story is genuine.
Basically my first impressions,
1) The kiddie voices used throughout the game really drive you mad
2) My Geforce on 700 Mhz has trouble with some scenes but I am on highest detail setting
3) Teaching creatures would be more fun if there was more useful things for them to do, currently I can only teach my tiger to throw my villagers into walls and stuff, which makes up for any other short commings in the game, cause it's as funny as anything.
Finally the law will let me put up the list of address's where teen schoolgirls commonly walk alone and would be easily abducted.
Everytime one of them gets kidnapped/assulted etc I'll put a little cheer on my website.
What part is exactly the freedom of speech there?
Is a list of address's a view? An opinion?
Is my "freedom of speech" to list address's more important than other people's saftey??
"You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License."
Isn't that really saying that any GPL code you modified must be GPL'd and that when you sell the modified product you can't charge extra to give them the GPL licence. But can't you still charge for the code?
For example, I will give you this product for $20, but I can't offer to sell it for $10 under a non GPL license instead. Code costs whatever, but license must cost and be unconditional.
Granted if I sell it to you, you can give it away for free (or charge for the code yourself) but I still have ample opportunity to make money.
Okay I admit, the war was cool (it's also what made Bab5 cool), and the dominion have to be the best bad guys ever, not pure evil, more politicians than warriors.
Yet DS9 was in quite a rut before hand with nearly every major character faling in love each episode.
Got better since but it was still had too much of a wesly saves the day every day feeling about it. And I would give anything to kill Rom and Nog.
Hopefully,
1) The Federation has not made contact with Ferrengi yet.
2) Little brat kids are not allowed on board the ship at all. This means you Wesly, Nog & Naomi.
3) As with point number 2, this isn't "The Original Series Kids". We wont have the young adventures of Captain Kirk
4) Not the love boat in space as Deep Space 9 was.
The way I see it the series looks like it's going to be a whole series of first contacts with important races, and discoveries of technologies taken for granted in other series.
Major plot devices will be easy to come up with because they've already been in the series, just not introduced. We'll occasionally have some time travel so we can have star apperances, and probably an unrecorded Q encounter.
The question is what social/ethnic group will play Captain? Sadly not Sulu (which would of rocked cause he has coolest voice) slightly wrong time zone.
I write the entire government secret files that I stole onto the back of a 5 cent piece. Use it to pay for a pencil that my contact is selling.
The FBI going to be able to electro-microscope everything? I think not. Yet I think nano-printers will be a bit percuiliar and expensive for your local crime syndicate so this is in the realms of cross nation spying.
Oh I suppose this technology could be used for powers of good but that's not really as interesting.
(using Australian speed limits here by the way)
What if another car is going at 55kph and I want to overtake, I reach 60 but am now stuck in the wrong lane very slowly overtaking.
The thing was I mis-judged that I could overtake the car easy enough, and I judged it so I would do it intime before the oncomming traffic hit me.
For crying out loud just make it beep loudly when you speed.
Granted the makers of MOO3 also cried when real time combat was discussed. The rational was that since there would be hundreds of ships in a battle moving them all individually would be way too painstaking.
They plan to do it different from current real time battle, ie not who can click the fastest. Will be interesting to see what they come up with.
Problem is scenerio when you start banning adds:
Okay we don't like altavista, no adds from altavista allowed on banner now.
Hmmm and intel have been pretty dodgy lately, no adds from them either.
And you know I never liked black people and I think too many banner adds have them...
Lets just not go down the road, if the people read this story and all dislike altavista now they'll make it their own choice to ignore the add.
I like how their security plan was simply tell people off who went into the dos shell. My friend once got banned for playing around with network drives, not doing anything bad, just showing how easily it can be done.
Granted there was a heck of a lot of stuff in IT exam that was never in classes, the worse part was when the exam asked me what does "this" algorithm do, and I pointed out where the algorithm crashes's, which they obviously didn't appreciate.
But atleast I was never told that a mouse is a GUI:)
Worst lecturer I've had:
Was quite competant but,
Told us how if our half year group project was handed up 1 minute late we get 0 and fail the subject (and therfore have to repeat another year).
He then told us the story of a student who'd worked on the project for a few all nighters and crashed his car out of tiredness while trying to drive it in before due date. Then he laughed and he was friggin serious.
Students put the guys pic on "am I hot or not". He got a 3.
Best tutor:
Was absolute computer nut, would help with absolutely anything to the point of actually checking your program's generated assembly code looking for weird errors. Would spend ages helping you (but without doing it for you) so you actually learnt something.
And now that I've left uni I've come to realise I hated every single lecturor/tutorer at Adelaide uni except for David Knight (tutorer in question).
Every bad story about Australia, UK and China there's always some guy who goes (haha you don't have guns, you can't bloodily kill your entire government when they make a bad policy unlike us)
Not to mention guns haven't been made illegal in Australia, just many automatics and the more deadly guns have been made so. I'm not sure about policy in other countries.
So tell me, how many times did you rally up your troops about carnivore or when net porn was temporarily banned in America. Friggin None (I hope).
The way I see it, the card's nVidia release in the next 2 years will be absolutely amazing. They'll have the best of 3dfx and nVid tech in them. (and hopefully we'll see the end to 3dfxGlide, that just got annoying for non 3dfx'ers)
Yet after the initial burst, I do see the company getting lazy and just releasing "amazing new features" that do nothing, but just keep the customers buying.
Alternatively development could continue just as well, but prices could get too high. Either way, I'm gonna buy a great 3D card in 2 years because it's going to have to last me a while.
It has software logos battle it out, and you can play on a slashdot map too
After having no story about it he was convinced he'd get in on quickies.
So atleast my post here makes his wish half true in a rather sad kinda way.
Enjoy
Slashdot Mirror
I think the idea was if some of the cool kids on the block such as Apple agree to talk to Real, then the bullies will stop throwing garbage at Real during recess.
What about the chances of an asteroid knocking the missing moon out of orbit?
I worked on pretty much the same kind of game for any X11 system http://xtux.sourceforge.net/
I was putting in Bill Gates, Linus and Jobs. The main problem was, at 64x64 pixels they pretty much look identical. Same build, near same bad haircut.
Creepy.
Here's a simular game my friend and I made sometime ago for X11 :)
http://xtux.sourceforge.net/
It has network code (should probably only be used for LAN), and a large selection of characters.
The cruel thing is we made the game to get on slashdot more than anything else (the game even includes a slashdot level) and now this comes along. My friend is going to be pissed
Question is, how many of the replies that don't seem to get that the original post was sarcastic, are actually sarcastic themselves?
I'll donate my dual sidewinder to anybody.
Please.
Someone take it away.
EA's never been good to the fan community.
They release quite frankly the worst Ultima ever and feel their intellectual property is being compromised by people wanting to enjoy what Ultima was.
EA has taken over sooo many game companies it's stupid, something to watch out for.
But maybe I'm just bitter cause Ultima9 was such a crap game.
>Furthermore, the friggin' WTC is *not* a >military target.
>. I think it's time to take off the kid gloves >and do to the Mideast what we did to Germany and >Japan.
Hiroshima, Nagasaki were not a military targets. The actual largest amount of people killed during WW2 in one attack was in a civilian German city. England was crying for revenge after constant bombings of London, so they pretty much flattened an easy target. Bosnia was fought by attacking civilian targets.
This is the sickest peace time attrocity but the point is killing Middle East civilians isn't going to help either. Infact that'll most likely make their want for revenge terrorist attacks larger.
Also I think a Palestine splinter group has taken credit for this, but usually a few groups like to take credit for terrorist actions.
Despite every other reply you seem to have got I'd like to commend you on your comment.
You make a post saying we've got to wait till we can find out who was responsible, and that making racial attacks against Arabs in America is going to solve nothing.
And you get attacked.
I'm not sure how a kamakazi pilot gets labeled as cowards either. The people who did this did it out of a blind sense of complete and utter patriotism. They were willing to die and kill thousands for what they believed in and the result, massive massive tradgedy.
Now if everybody else responds with a blind sense of complete and utter patriotism things aren't going to get any brighter.
The people who did this, should be punished and crippled to a point where this can hopefully never happen again.
But the key is "the people WHO did this", not "the people who we think did it, or the people that came from the same country as the people who did this".
Thankyou
I was very impressed with the original Planet of the Apes as a major part of it was about evolution vs religion. For the day (and even today) that would of raised quite a storm.
I haven't seen the movie yet but, out of interest, can someone tell me if they've kept that as a major aspect or is it all now about Freedom ala BattleField Earth?
Need I remind you that the ship that brought us into first contact with the Vulcans was made by one hick (not counting interferance by future generations). Oh wait, I'm confusing imagination with reality again. Just like everybody who thinks this story is genuine.
Basically my first impressions,
1) The kiddie voices used throughout the game really drive you mad
2) My Geforce on 700 Mhz has trouble with some scenes but I am on highest detail setting
3) Teaching creatures would be more fun if there was more useful things for them to do, currently I can only teach my tiger to throw my villagers into walls and stuff, which makes up for any other short commings in the game, cause it's as funny as anything.
Finally the law will let me put up the list of address's where teen schoolgirls commonly walk alone and would be easily abducted.
Everytime one of them gets kidnapped/assulted etc I'll put a little cheer on my website.
What part is exactly the freedom of speech there?
Is a list of address's a view? An opinion?
Is my "freedom of speech" to list address's more important than other people's saftey??
Just trying to put things in perspective.
"You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License."
Isn't that really saying that any GPL code you modified must be GPL'd and that when you sell the modified product you can't charge extra to give them the GPL licence. But can't you still charge for the code?
For example, I will give you this product for $20, but I can't offer to sell it for $10 under a non GPL license instead. Code costs whatever, but license must cost and be unconditional.
Granted if I sell it to you, you can give it away for free (or charge for the code yourself) but I still have ample opportunity to make money.
Okay I admit, the war was cool (it's also what made Bab5 cool), and the dominion have to be the best bad guys ever, not pure evil, more politicians than warriors.
Yet DS9 was in quite a rut before hand with nearly every major character faling in love each episode.
Got better since but it was still had too much of a wesly saves the day every day feeling about it. And I would give anything to kill Rom and Nog.
Hopefully,
1) The Federation has not made contact with Ferrengi yet.
2) Little brat kids are not allowed on board the ship at all. This means you Wesly, Nog & Naomi.
3) As with point number 2, this isn't "The Original Series Kids". We wont have the young adventures of Captain Kirk
4) Not the love boat in space as Deep Space 9 was.
The way I see it the series looks like it's going to be a whole series of first contacts with important races, and discoveries of technologies taken for granted in other series.
Major plot devices will be easy to come up with because they've already been in the series, just not introduced. We'll occasionally have some time travel so we can have star apperances, and probably an unrecorded Q encounter.
The question is what social/ethnic group will play Captain? Sadly not Sulu (which would of rocked cause he has coolest voice) slightly wrong time zone.
Oh well I've blathered enough.
I write the entire government secret files that I stole onto the back of a 5 cent piece. Use it to pay for a pencil that my contact is selling.
The FBI going to be able to electro-microscope everything? I think not. Yet I think nano-printers will be a bit percuiliar and expensive for your local crime syndicate so this is in the realms of cross nation spying.
Oh I suppose this technology could be used for powers of good but that's not really as interesting.
(using Australian speed limits here by the way)
What if another car is going at 55kph and I want to overtake, I reach 60 but am now stuck in the wrong lane very slowly overtaking.
The thing was I mis-judged that I could overtake the car easy enough, and I judged it so I would do it intime before the oncomming traffic hit me.
For crying out loud just make it beep loudly when you speed.
Granted the makers of MOO3 also cried when real time combat was discussed. The rational was that since there would be hundreds of ships in a battle moving them all individually would be way too painstaking.
They plan to do it different from current real time battle, ie not who can click the fastest. Will be interesting to see what they come up with.
Problem is scenerio when you start banning adds:
Okay we don't like altavista, no adds from altavista allowed on banner now.
Hmmm and intel have been pretty dodgy lately, no adds from them either.
And you know I never liked black people and I think too many banner adds have them...
Lets just not go down the road, if the people read this story and all dislike altavista now they'll make it their own choice to ignore the add.
I like how their security plan was simply tell people off who went into the dos shell. My friend once got banned for playing around with network drives, not doing anything bad, just showing how easily it can be done.
:)
Granted there was a heck of a lot of stuff in IT exam that was never in classes, the worse part was when the exam asked me what does "this" algorithm do, and I pointed out where the algorithm crashes's, which they obviously didn't appreciate.
But atleast I was never told that a mouse is a GUI
Worst lecturer I've had:
:)
Was quite competant but,
Told us how if our half year group project was handed up 1 minute late we get 0 and fail the subject (and therfore have to repeat another year).
He then told us the story of a student who'd worked on the project for a few all nighters and crashed his car out of tiredness while trying to drive it in before due date. Then he laughed and he was friggin serious.
Students put the guys pic on "am I hot or not". He got a 3.
Best tutor:
Was absolute computer nut, would help with absolutely anything to the point of actually checking your program's generated assembly code looking for weird errors. Would spend ages helping you (but without doing it for you) so you actually learnt something.
And now that I've left uni I've come to realise I hated every single lecturor/tutorer at Adelaide uni except for David Knight (tutorer in question).
Here's to you David
Every bad story about Australia, UK and China there's always some guy who goes (haha you don't have guns, you can't bloodily kill your entire government when they make a bad policy unlike us)
Not to mention guns haven't been made illegal in Australia, just many automatics and the more deadly guns have been made so. I'm not sure about policy in other countries.
So tell me, how many times did you rally up your troops about carnivore or when net porn was temporarily banned in America. Friggin None (I hope).
Ahh message was probably just flame bait anyway.
The way I see it, the card's nVidia release in the next 2 years will be absolutely amazing. They'll have the best of 3dfx and nVid tech in them. (and hopefully we'll see the end to 3dfxGlide, that just got annoying for non 3dfx'ers)
Yet after the initial burst, I do see the company getting lazy and just releasing "amazing new features" that do nothing, but just keep the customers buying.
Alternatively development could continue just as well, but prices could get too high. Either way, I'm gonna buy a great 3D card in 2 years because it's going to have to last me a while.
http://xtux.sourceforge.net/
It has software logos battle it out, and you can play on a slashdot map too
After having no story about it he was convinced he'd get in on quickies.
So atleast my post here makes his wish half true in a rather sad kinda way.
Enjoy